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Show C-1 B-1 ATTEND A PIONEERING TALK ABOUT CHRISTMAS CURLERS LOOK TO GAMES TO SWEEP UP NEW FANS Watch for our Winter Activities and Rec Guide ts er Spor in Wint Get outside & get active Utah’s legendary powder! ure Cult Catch world-class films, music & art all winter! g Dinin Sample the best food Utah has to offer! e... Mor And Keep the whole family busy with tons of off-slope fun! BUSINESS, A-7 COLUMNS, A-18 Find the guide inside the paper and on newsstands on Dec. 23 Park Record. PARK CITY BUSINESS FORECAST DEPENDS ON SNOW TREASURE DEAL IS CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, TOM CLYDE SAYS The PA R K C I T Y, U TA H W W W. PA R K R E C O R D . C O M Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 16-19, 2017 Serving Summit County since 1880 Tribe plans Bears Ears work in city | An army of angels Vol. 137 | No. 90 50¢ Treasure deal overshadows planning talks JAMES HOYT/PARK RECORD Larry Cesspooch, a Ute spiritual leader, filmmaker and adviser for Ute PAC, speaks at a fundraising meeting at the Park City Library on Tuesday. Ute PAC plans on working out of Park City to advocate for the Ute tribe and oppose the movement to resize Bears Ears National Monument. Committee opposes president’s dramatic reduction in acreage JAMES HOYT The Park Record Utah’s namesake is bringing the battle over Bears Ears National Monument to Park City. Tuesday evening at the Park City Library, Robert Lucero, founder and director of Ute Political Action Committee, and Larry Cesspooch, a Ute spiritual leader and filmmaker residing in the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, spoke to a group of about 20 prospective Summit County donors and supporters. Among the topics of conversation: the 2016 Public Lands Initiative and the current legal battles over President Trump’s dramatic resizing of Bears Ears. Lucero said Ute PAC plans on establishing a permanent office in Park City in the near future because the Ute tribe has a good relationship with the community. “Park City is, to me, the sixth borough of New York City, where it’s a lot of people who are well-placed in society who have resources who like to give to organizations like ours and who want to support our fight,” Lucero said. Cesspooch said that Park City’s proximity to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation is good for facilitating activism. “No matter where you need to go to rally people together to protect the earth, that’s where you go,” Cesspooch said. Trump recently visited Salt Lake City to announce the resizing of Utah’s national monument boundaries, shrinking Bears Ears by 1.1 million acres and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 800,000 acres. The moves have drawn swift opposition from groups concerned that private interests will extract natural resources from the land formerly included in the monuments, destroying archaeological artifacts and disrupting sacred ground. Cesspooch described the Utes’ homeland, encompassing Utah and Colorado, as a “Super Walmart” for resources like salt and game. The Trump administration and Please see Bears Ears, A-2 3 sections • 42 pages Business ................................. A-7 Classifieds ............................ C-10 Columns ............................... A-18 Crossword .............................. C-4 Editorial................................ A-19 Events Calendar ..................... C-6 Legals ................................... C-13 Letters to the Editor ............. A-19 Restaurant Guide.................. A-13 Scene ...................................... C-1 Scoreboard ............................. B-5 Sports ..................................... B-1 Weather .................................. B-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The Park City Planning Commission on Wednesday drew a diverse crowd to learn about City Hall’s efforts to acquire half of the Treasure development rights, the first time the tentative agreement was discussed in a public setting. The Planning Commission delayed additional discussions about Treasure to allow the elected officials and the Treasure side to continue the talks about an acquisition. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City Day School students and Salvation Army Major Troy Trimmer load a donation truck with gifts that were collected as part of the school’s Angel Tree event Friday morning. The gifts, which will be given to children of needy families, included bicycles, toddler toys and clothes. County Courthouse raises taxes, a rare, difficult move Officials argue extra monies needed to ensure services are maintained, goals pursued ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record The Summit County Council on Wednesday unanimously agreed to impose a property tax hike after a more than two-hour discussion with East Side residents. The County Council’s decision came after nearly a year of meetings and conversations on the matter. The county began the Truth in Taxation process in September after County Manager Tom Fisher proposed drastic budget cuts if property taxes weren’t raised. The Council approved a 27 percent revenue increase for the general and municipal funds, which amounts to about a 5.5 to 7 percent hike on an average property tax bill. The property tax increase was approved along with the county’s $53.8 million 2018 budget. The budget includes two additional full-time employees and $4.06 million in capital projects. “We don’t want to raise it either and we have Panel agrees to push back more discussions to allow City Hall to pursue an acquisition JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record debated it for over a year,” Council Chair Chris Robinson said during the meeting. “But a budget was served up that had 15 percent increases for those two funds that account for about 12 percent of your property tax bill. That was done in order to maintain strategic goals and levels of service that we, as a Council, have deemed appropriate.” Wednesday’s meeting was the second public hearing about the property tax increase and budget. More than 40 people attended the meeting, with several addressing the Council in support or opposition of the hike. The hearing on Dec. 6 at the Sheldon Richins Building attracted a similar-sized audience. The County Council and staffers have said the increase was necessary to maintain service levels and the pursuit of the Council’s strategic goals, such as environmental stewardship, and addressing mental health and substance abuse and access to services. Ed Rutan, a founding member of CONNECT Summit County, an advocacy group that has spearheaded the community’s effort to address the lack of mental health and substance abuse services, offered his support of the increase and the county’s desire to help fund help mental health City Hall’s tentative agreement to acquire half of the Treasure development rights received broad support peppered with a few concerns at a Wednesday night meeting of the Park City Planning Commission, likely an early preview of what is expected to be an intense, community-wide discussion in coming months as sides craft arguments for or against a ballot measure to fund a deal if one is pursued. The Planning Commission meeting was held one day after Park City leaders announced they had reached the $30 million deal with the Treasure side. The meeting was anticipated to be a crucial gathering about Treasure even before the Tuesday announcement of the agreement. The Planning Commission up until Tuesday had been expected on Wednesday to signal which way it would vote on the hotly disputed project, with a vote possible by the end of the year. The prospects of an agreement, though, overshadowed the meeting. The Planning Commission met at the Santy Auditorium rather than the Park City Council chambers to accommodate a large crowd that included Treasure opponents, elected officials and City Hall watchers. The Planning Commission opted to delay additional discussions about Treasure until an undetermined date. The delay allows the elected officials and the Treasure side to continue the discussions about the acquisition. The deal would involve the Sweeney family’s 50 percent stake in Treasure while the other partner in the Please see The county, A-2 Please see Treasure, A-2 Neighborhood parking protected, city says Enforcement increases as paid parking starts in Main Street core JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record There is free parking on streets like Park Avenue, Woodside Avenue and Daly Avenue, just steps from Main Street. But City Hall has a warning for drivers who are looking for a place where they do not need to pay to park: Do not leave a car on a neighborhood street in Old Town. A permit system regulates street parking in the neighborhood. It is designed to block Main Street customers and workers from parking on residential streets and then walking to the shopping, dining and entertainment strip. The parking spots on the residential streets should be set aside for people who live there, officials say. There are regular violations of the TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City operates a permit system for street parking in Old Town. The system is meant to ensure there is parking available for residents by prohibiting people headed to Main Street from leaving cars on Old Town streets, like 8th Street, shown. A revamped paid-parking system has launched in the Main Street core. permit system as vehicles without the City Hall-issued permits are seen parked on restricted streets. The pro- gram, though, has generally been seen as successful over the 20 years it has been used. City Hall introduced the VISITOR GUIDE The benefits of author event are immeasurable system alongside the first iteration of paid parking in the late 1990s. City Hall launched the revamped paid-parking system on Friday, one of the most notable changes since the program started. Some of the alterations include increased prices on Main Street and the reintroduction of paid parking in the China Bridge garage and Swede Alley. The expansion of paid parking has the possibility of pushing some drivers onto the permit-only streets, and officials say they have planned for that scenario. Kenzie Coulson, the parking and fleet manager for City Hall, said parking-enforcement patrols were increased in the permit-only zones in Old Town on Friday to coincide with the start of the revamped paid-parking system. “We’re committed to protecting residential permitted areas for the true residents,” Coulson said. The permit zones generally stretch southward from 12th Street to the southern end of Old Town on Daly Please see Permits, A-2 Boulder residents Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle, owner of the award-winning Hell’s Backbone Grill, will discuss and sign their new cookbook, “The Immeasurable Place,” on Sunday, Dec. 17, at Dolly’s Bookstore. The event is free. More: www.dollysbookstore.com. |